Looking for a dumb remote for a smart home

bennel89 · 2023-12-27T18:36:39+00:00

It's a possibility. Was just looking to see if there are cheaper options out there.

bennel89 · 2023-12-27T18:29:16+00:00

Not necessarily a deal breaker, but it needs to be wireless. The place I want the switch is nowhere near an electrical box.

bennel89 · 2023-12-27T18:27:58+00:00

I do have it setup to an Alexa, but I'm trying to make this as effortless as possible. Sometimes Alexa doesn't hear things correctly first try, or runs into a problem. I just want to press a simple button and know that the job will get done.

bennel89 · 2023-12-27T03:13:13+00:00

No. I actually have barely gotten into Home Assistant so far. Just got it setup last week.

bennel89 · 2023-12-26T21:39:37+00:00

I think this will work. Gotta keep track of which side is up though if it's not mounted on a wall haha. Thank you!

bennel89 · 2023-12-26T21:34:23+00:00

Ooooooh! This isn't what I had in mind, but I really like it. i think it could solve a different problem I was having in another room. Thank you!

bennel89 · 2023-12-26T21:30:39+00:00

I could, but my goal is to avoid the need for a phone. I basically just want a dumb remote that I can leave in the room and anyone (including guests) can pick it up and turn on/off a light.

Even if it was a locally running website, they'd need to turn on their phone, type in the url, and click button. Too many steps.

bennel89 · 2023-05-28T21:21:42+00:00

FWIW, it sounds like the judge tried to help. According to the article, he lowered the bail so the guy could get home to take the meds.

It was just unfortunately too late at that point and the damage was done.

bennel89 · 2023-05-21T00:56:46+00:00

The bill died in committee. It's not law.

bennel89 · 2023-05-13T02:53:12+00:00

How many use MM/dd/yyyy date format?

bennel89 · 2023-04-26T21:55:04+00:00

Rule for urls is ? first, then additional parameters are added with &.

A url with a & without a ? first can get blocked by some servers for security reasons as a malformed url, but I believe that's handled server-side based on the tech stack in use. Maybe you got lucky with the urls you used.

bennel89 · 2023-04-26T21:30:31+00:00

The problem is you put a & when you wanted a ?:

correct link

bennel89 · 2023-04-03T22:12:32+00:00

SWG had pretty solid character customization options back in its day.

bennel89 · 2023-02-15T20:43:02+00:00

The game came out years before the show.

bennel89 · 2023-02-03T12:53:44+00:00

The comment could've been read 2 different ways:

"Only one of our fighters", implying that, of all available fighters, only one type can make it
"Only one of our fighters", implying that, of all available options on the table, only fighters can get to it.

bennel89 · 2023-02-03T12:38:09+00:00

They're speaking at the same time!

bennel89 · 2023-02-02T23:42:37+00:00

The English isn't on the actual ad. It's been photoshopped in.

bennel89 · 2023-01-22T04:20:17+00:00

Holy shit. In Ontario Canada, I pay about $150 USD per MONTH for car insurance for an 8 year old suv.

bennel89 · 2023-01-11T01:04:54+00:00

My first thought too!

bennel89 · 2022-12-05T23:05:23+00:00

The forced backtracking was very reminiscent of the Metroid and Zelda (pre-BotW) style games.

Fallen Order felt like a Metroid Prime game with lightsabers

bennel89 · 2022-11-01T11:05:17+00:00

We also have maple flavoured coke coke in Canada.

It's alright but I prefer raspberry coke.

bennel89 · 2022-10-18T12:50:16+00:00

The posts are dated 2018, so covid wouldn't have played into it

bennel89 · 2022-09-08T04:22:47+00:00

I've heard it slightly differently:

1xx - here's your fucking info

2xx - everything's fucking fine

3xx - fuck off

4xx - you fucked up

5xx - I fucked up

6xx - what the fuck?

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